by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 29, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
A political friend brought my attention to an interesting (and growing) phenomenon in the public sphere: the mining of someone’s distant past for transgressions against current social mandates. Or, more sinisterly, as a means of taking down someone with whom...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 20, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
In a recent interview with Ben Shapiro, political columnist Heather Mac Donald skewered some college kids’ pursuit of ever-more-granularized identity group badges: … all the various gender identities that are being rapidly crafted by desperate students who...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 15, 2019 | Politics
A social media conversation I had the other day, regarding the estate tax, provided this little gem: Concentrations of wealth are indispensable for the existence of a civilization. My fellow converser is correct. Without concentrations of wealth, that is to say...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 8, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
Disgraced stand-up comic and comedy auteur Louis C.K. caught some more flak from the social justice scolds, recently, as recordings of some of recent performances were “leaked” (oh, how sinister and socially responsible that term is!). The quoted jokes are...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 4, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Taxation
In further validation of the notion that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” Christopher Rufo at City Journal informs us of the latest whiz-bang idea coming out of the homeless-advocacy camp is that of...
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